Queensberry: Party's star rises as Lib Dems go for solo success

From: Evening News - Scotland | Date: April 18, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

OPPONENTS accused them of a sell-out and observers warned they would lose their electoral identity.

But three years after Jim Wallace took his Liberal Democrats into coalition with Labour in the Scottish Executive, the party is showing its best opinion poll rating for 15 years.

And as delegates gather in Perth tomorrow for the party's spring conference, the Lib Dems are expecting to win extra seats at next year's Scottish Parliament elections.

There are still jibes about "ministerial Mondeos", but the evidence of last year's General Election suggests they have managed to preserve their own ...

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